Is there a scandisk alternative for Linux - fsck

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In the Windows world, I used scandisk to fix corruptions on the hard disk. How do I do it in Linux?

It is not often that you will need to do this, if you shutdown prematurely, fsck (File System ChecK) will automatically be called when you reboot. If you do feel that you need to do it, follow the following steps:

Boot from the live CD

Do not mount the filesytems on your local hardisk

Open a konsole terminal, and su to root

Type "cat /etc/fstab" to see what drives you have on the local hardisk.

Run fsck on any non windows drives (do not run it on ntfs), by typing "fsck -r /mnt/hda5", alternatively you can start fsck from MEPIS OS Center -> Repair Partitions.